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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is described in "Love Lies Sleeping"?
(a) Riding on a train.
(b) Waking in a house.
(c) Riding on a plane.
(d) Waking in a hotel.

2. What does "Jeronimo's House" reflect about the poet?
(a) Her love for spacious houses.
(b) Her love for her dog.
(c) Her love for small houses.
(d) Her love for Spanish things.

3. What are two sounds the poet appreciates in "Questions of Travel"?
(a) Rain and frogs.
(b) Tap shoes and a cricket's chirp.
(c) Wooden clogs and a bird's song.
(d) Wind and roosters.

4. What is involved in the resolution of Four Poems?
(a) A decision to wed.
(b) Divorce.
(c) Separation.
(d) Realization.

5. On what is "The Riverman" based?
(a) Amazon Town by Charles Bagley.
(b) Amazon Town by Charles Wagley.
(c) Amazon Tales by Charles Wagley.
(d) Amazon Tales by Charles Bagley.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Bishop's attitude toward the title character and his family in "Manuelzinho"?

2. In "Cape Breton," what types of animals are staring out to sea?

3. In what time of day does "At the Fishhouses" take place?

4. How is the house in "Jeronimo's House" decorated?

5. What literary devices does Bishop employ in the poems in North and South?

Short Essay Questions

1. Does Bishop see the ocean as ever-changing or never changing in the poems in Cold Spring?

2. What is the relationship between the fisherman and the fishhouse in "At the Fishhouses"?

3. Why does Bishop use the structure of building each line upon the last in "Visits to St. Elizabeth's"?

4. What does the final stanza of "Insomnia" depict?

5. Why does the character in "The Gentleman of Shalott" think half of him would be enough?

6. In "Questions of Travel," does the poet decide it is better to travel, or stay home and use one's imagination?

7. In "Electrical Storm," why are the pearls twice described as dead?

8. How does the poet frame her journey in "Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance"?

9. How is the writing style in "The Riverman" unlike most of Bishop's poems?

10. How do the poet's descriptions in "Arrival at Santos" reflect her dual state of mind?

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